The World Cup’s Secret Weapon

Sky-high ticket prices? Half-empty hotels? Political chaos? FIFA isn’t fretting. North America’s TV-friendly kickoff times are poised to make this the most watched tournament in history.

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A Social Media Feud Is Threatening the Fate of ‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’

Taylor Frankie Paul and Mikayla Matthews have been trading blows for the past few weeks online, discussing topics like domestic violence and sexual abuse on their Instagram Stories and in comments sections. 

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How the ‘Summer House’ Finale and ‘In the City’ Premiere Meet This Bravo Moment

The season 10 finale of the flagship series ended with starring couple Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula taking a step toward ending their marriage, and the emotional scene led right into their spinoff series, which is even more revealing about what's to come.

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Deal Lethargy Forces Hollywood Writers to Leave Money on the Table. That Needs to Change

The maddening, creativity-killing lag between the moment a writer shakes hands on an assignment and the moment a deal is actually closed marks a structural failure.

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‘Hacks’ Goes Full Sitcom — Without Losing Its Bite

As Deborah (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder) explore doomed romances, the season’s bigger themes of fame, fandom and friendship snap into focus.

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The U.K.’s Channel 4 Got Louder Under Ian Katz. Not Everyone Heard the Same Thing

As the outgoing chief content officer ends his eight-year tenure, the verdict from inside the industry is complicated — and says as much about the state of television as it does about the man himself.

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‘Love Story’ Finale: Ryan Murphy Delivers the Tears I’d Been Dreading

Reviewing "Search and Recovery," the ninth and final episode of Ryan Murphy's FX series about the JFK Jr.-Carolyn Bessette romance, a former 'George' magazine staffer relives the traumatic moment she learned of her friend's tragic death.

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Why You Can’t “Shop the Red Carpet” Anymore

The clothes designers custom-make for movie stars and the fashion they create for the runway have nothing in common. It wasn’t always this way.  

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That Time Matt Bomer Lost His Passport in Japan

The 'White Collar' actor — soon to be seen in Jonah Hill's Apple TV film 'Outcome' — on cherry blossom season, staying at the 'Lost in Translation' hotel and losing his travel documents in one of his "favorite countries in the world."

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What Timothée Chalamet Gets Wrong — and Right — About the Death of Opera

Bangkok-based opera director S.P. Somtow on why the genre's future may lie far from where it began: "Opera is going to survive no matter what anyone says."

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